The speedy World Report might not have matched his title, however he certainly lived as much as the expectations of his connections in notching his preliminary graded stakes win.
Carrying blinkers for the primary time, Siena Farm and WinStar Farm’s son of Gun Runner broke shortly from the rail and by no means regarded again as he rocketed to a decisive 6 3/4-length victory within the $194,000 Amsterdam Stakes (G2) for 3-year-olds July 26 at Saratoga Race Course.
“That was very spectacular,” stated Elliott Walden, WinStar’s CEO, president, and racing supervisor in regards to the colt educated by Rodolphe Brisset. “We had been searching for that from him. It is good to see him step ahead like that.”
What World Report wanted was some blistering early fractions that left his 4 pursuers within the small subject winded from attempting to maintain tempo and unable to mount a critical menace as he pulled away within the stretch.
Bred by Runnymede Farm, Falguieres Bloodstock, and Gestut Zur Kuste AG in Kentucky, World Report and jockey Flavien Prat blazed by way of the opening half-mile in :21.56 and :44.64 and led by about three lengths within the 6 1/2-furlong dash after which widened his 3 1/2-length lead within the ultimate furlong.
“On paper I believed all 5 horses had been even by way of capacity however with him making solely three begins, I hoped he would transfer ahead and he did in a giant means. He has nice expertise,” Walden stated. “He is a phenomenal horse. We purchased him as a foal and he has developed the fitting means.”
Although World Report has raced solely on grime, with a mark of two wins and two thirds in 4 begins, there’s some turf affect in his pedigree which induced some preliminary debate in regards to the colt’s future.
“For 2 years, David Hanley (WinStar’s senior vp) and I’ve debated whether or not he would wish turf,” Walden stated.
Seems he did not, although his dam, Marwa, was bred in Nice Britain and is by Exceed and Excel , a grandson of Danzig.
“What his dam brings is velocity and that is the place he will get his velocity from. Breeding her to Gun Runner, I feel they had been searching for velocity,” Walden stated. “The way in which he seems to be, he jogs my memory of Danzig. Nice mover, deep, robust. Nicely balanced with a very good hind quarter.”
Coming off a 3rd within the Maxfield In a single day Stakes at Churchill Downs, World Traveler ($14.60) was the 6-1 fourth-choice and coated the 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:16.20. The Aug. 24 seven-furlong H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1) on the Spa appears a possible goal, Brisset stated.
He was purchased for $410,000 from the Runnymede consignment on the 2021 Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale.
Godolphin’s Jefferson Avenue , the 4-5 favourite off a lopsided allowance win, took a run at World Report on the flip however couldn’t maintain that transfer within the stretch and settled for second. The son of Avenue Sense educated by Invoice Mott was 7 1/4 lengths forward of the Steve Asmussen-trained Valentine Sweet (Justify ).
